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Writers:
Earl Derr Biggers (characters)
George Callahan (writer)
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Release Date:
26 January 1945 (USA) more
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Tagline:
A MYSTERY MANSION...Where death lurks in every dark corner and a mad genius runs loose!
Plot:
Charlie Chan looks into the apparent murder of a scientist in a spooky mansion. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Sidney Toler ... Charlie Chan
Mantan Moreland ... Birmingham Brown
Edwin Luke ... Eddie Chan
Hardie Albright ... Walter Meeker
Frank Reicher ... Harper
Janet Warren ... Jean Kent
Cyril Delevanti ... Roth
Al Bridge ... Sheriff Mack (as Alan Bridge)
Ralph Lewis ... Officer Jim Kimball
Dorothy Granger ... Stella Graham
Edith Evanson ... Louise Harper
Joe Whitehead ... Dr. Samuel R. Peabody
Henry Hall ... Inspector Godfrey
Jack Ingram ... Lloyd Archer
Danny Desmond ... Bellboy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
66 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Eddie Chan: Gentlemen, in this matter of thought I'm sure that I can assist both of you.
Charlie Chan: [to others] He reach oversize decision with undersized brain.
[to Eddie]
Charlie Chan: Relax!
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Okay Chan, 17 July 2004
6/10
Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

This film suffers from a cheapness and lack of decent plotting. Its still worth seeing, especially if you have other films to watch as well.

Concerning the death of yet another inventor Charlie Chan runs around and a round the same three or four sets in what at times amounts to little more than a filmed stage play. Its not bad, just needlessly circular and confused, with a denouncement that seems to indicate that the writers were drinking heavily.

This isn't to say that it's a bad film, its not. Despite my opening remark, this is a film that is frustrating more than anything, especially since the film should work better than it does, but it was undermined by the round about nature forced upon it by cost and script.

6 out of 10.

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